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We have been using openoffice for several years on our *inux laptops. Recetnly installed the 3.0 beta. There are some quirks but for the most part it works just fine re: MS Office 2007 interoperability. . MS Office 2007 support the openoffice XML spec, however, we've needed to install MS Office 2007 SP1 on our workstations to resolve some quirks with open office created files.

i used open office for a little while, but it seemed really slow on my pc. where as office 03 and even 07 ran considerably faster. i havent tried the latest version yet, but that was one of the reasons i stayed away from it. since im starting to go linux i might as well get used to it.

I can't say that I have noticed a speed difference but I have managed to pitch it a curved ball

I have some zipped Excel .csv (comma separated variable) files............ it just hangs up on them whilst Excel (XP and 2003) opens them in a spreadsheet. I have tried that on Win 2000 and XP boxes, but I need to check if it is the .zip file utility that is the cause.

It will open an Access 2003 database which v2.4 didn't seem to want to.

At this stage all I will say that the GUI seems a lot cleaner. At least it says what things are, rather than using their brand name